Kolade Chris Blog

Imagine the scenario: Mr X is a young man who has cultivated the act of giving right since his years as a toddler. He never gives expecting another in return from anyone, he does with a clean and sincere heart and never looks at the status of his targeted recipient ~ he simply does not care whether they are poor, rich, or in the middle class. In fact, he would share whatever he had with anyone in need. Another incredible character inculcated by Mr X is that he let go freely and move on swiftly when such need arise. Since those years as a toddler up till the adolescence, a lot of people from the outside – and even the family members of Mr. X – would say he is a “fool” for caring and thinking about others at his expense but he never listened. Mr X himself does not really know about the benefits in giving until his late teenage years, he just give to anyone in need without expecting anything in return. One day, this young man noticed whenever he gives or have it in mind and promise to, h...

What the word “Godfatherism” entails is not just sponsoring someone to get to the mantle of leadership through guile and other juggling means, it is a corruption of the highest order. By definition, Godfatherism is a political corruption in which an influential mafia leader assists another person in the climb to [a] leadership role[s] through intrigue, cunny and evil machination at the expense of the major determiners of the role[s]. Since time immemorial, there is no society in which godfatherism thrives that experienced meaningful development in any walk of life, this is evident in a lot of countries in the third world and some notable states in Nigeria. The major havoc wreaked by this perilous act is denies people the right to elect the candidates of their collective choice because of an incurable predilection to all-time relevance, attention and power. As a result, “dummies” who have no idea of what good governance and quality leadership is are elected into leadership roles and th...